North Indian Cooking by..Geeta Seth

  • North Indian Cooking....By Geeta Seth
  • Recipes - Index
  • Reference to Spices and Herbs
  • Dals / Lentils
    • DAl / Lentils - Index >
      • About Dal/ Lentil's - Indian Dal Preparations
      • Tadka
      • Maa Ki Kali Dal
      • Dal Makhani
      • Masoor Dal
      • Moong dal with spinach (Palak with moong dal)
      • Chana Dal
      • Moong Dal with Spinach (Palak Dal with Yellow Moong Dal)
      • Moong Dal (Split and skinned yellow Moong Dal)
      • Maharni Dal (Black urad, chana Dal & kidney beans mixed)
      • Red split Masoor Dal (Malka Masoor dal)
      • Split Black Urad Dal
      • Sprouted Moong Dal
      • Split Green moong Dal
      • Panchratan Dal or Panchmel Dal ( (Five Dal Mixed )
      • Trevti Dal (Toor Dal & Moong Dal & Chana Dal Mix)
      • Masala Tadka Dal (Arhar dal or Toor Dal)
      • Toor Dal & Masala tadka dal (Arhar Dal or Pigeon pea)
      • Toor Dal (Arhar Dal)
      • Urad Dal (white urad dal)
      • White Urad and chana Dal mix
      • Whole Green Moong Dal
  • Beans
    • Bean- Index
    • Bean- Index
    • About Beans
    • Black Beans
    • Chole (chick pea curry)
    • Lima beans
    • Lima beans curry
    • Rajma (Red kidney Beans)
  • Rice and Pulao's - Index
    • About rice and pulao >
      • Rice and pulao's >
        • Rice and Pulao's - Index
        • Chicken Biryani
        • Shrimp Biryani
        • Rice with caramelized browned onions
        • Vegetables and paneer Biryani
        • Boiled white rice
        • Boiled white rice
        • Toor Dal with rice khichdi (Arhar dal khichdi)
        • Black urad dal with rice khichdi (Maa ki dal ki khichdi)
        • Urad dal with rice khichdi (Black urad dal khichdi, Ma ki dal)
        • Moong Dal and rice khichdi
        • Moong dal and dalia khichdi
        • Kali dal ki khichdi (Black urad dal or Maa ki dal ki khichdi)
        • Maa ki dal ki khichdi (whole urad dal khichdi)
        • Sabudana Khichdi (Tapioca pearls)
        • Muttar paneer pulao (Rice with green peas and cheese)
        • Muttar pulao (Rice with green peas)
        • Pulao with cauliflower, green peas and potatoes
        • Vegetabale Pulao
        • Tamarind Rice (Imly rice)
        • Arhar dal with rice khichdi
  • Meat Dishes - Index
    • Meat Dishes >
      • Meat Dishes - Index
      • About the Indian meat dishes
      • Beef Kebabs
      • Beef Keema with Spinach
      • Ground Beef shammi kebabs
      • Beef Seekah Kebabs (Minced meat roasted on skewers)
      • Beef Frankie (wrap)
      • Beef with Spinach Curry
      • Butter Chicken (Murg makhani)
      • Chicken Curry
      • Chicken Kebabs
      • Chicken Keema with spinach
      • Chicken Seekh Kebabs (Minced meat roasted on skewers)
      • Chicken kebabs Stir fry
      • Chicken shammi kebabs
      • Chicken korma
      • Chicken Frankie (wrap)
      • Chicken tikka Masala
      • Chicken with spinach curry (chicken saag)
      • Palak Gosht (Beef with Spinach Curry)
      • Chicken Saag (Chicken with spinach curry)
      • Tandoori chicken
  • Kati Roll
    • Kati Roll - Index
    • Beef kati roll
    • Chicken kati roll
    • Paneer kati roll
  • Paneer dishes - Index
    • Paneer dishes >
      • About paneer
      • Paneer dishes - Index
      • How to make the paneer at home
      • Butter Paneer (Paneer makhani)
      • Crumbled paneer curry with green peas
      • Kadhai paneer
      • Muttar paneer (paneer with green peas)
      • Paneer curry (paneer ke sabzi)
      • Paneer tikka (Barbecued Paneer Kebabs)
      • Paneer Bhurji (Scrambled Paneer)
      • Palak paneer (spinach with paneer)
      • Paneer Frankie (wrap)
      • Paneer tikka masala
      • Shahi paneer
      • Tandoori Paneer Tikka Kebab
  • Kofta - Index
    • Koftas >
      • Kofta - Index
      • About Koftas
      • Cabbage Koftas (Bandh gobi kofta)
      • Lauki Kofta (Bottle gourd or Dudhi, Ghiya kofta)
      • Masoor Dal Kofta
      • Paneer Koftas
      • Palak Kofta (Spinach kofta)
  • Vegetable dishes - Index
    • Vegetable dishes with gravy >
      • Vegetable dishes - Index
      • About the Vegetables dishes
      • Arbi with gravy (Taro roots)
      • Aloo tamater ke sabzi (Potatoes with toamtoes curry)
      • Aloo Muttar Ki Sabzi (Potato with Green Peas Curry)
      • Aloo wadiyan (Potatoes with urad dal wadiyan)
      • Besan Kadhi
      • Bharwa aloo (Stuffed potatoes)
      • Dum Aloo (Potato curry)
      • Egg curry (Ande Ki curry)
      • Mangories with Aloo, tamater (Moong Dal Mangories with potatoes and tomateos)
      • Sarson Ka Saag
      • Spinach with mushrooms
      • Stuffed cabbage rolls curry (Bandh gobi ki rolls)
      • Palak Mushroom curry (Spinach with Mushroom curry)
      • Punjabi Kadhi (Besan pakoda kadhi)
      • Pyaz ki Aloo (Potatoes with onion curry)
  • Vegetables side dishes - Index
    • Vegetables Side dishes (sukhi sabzi) >
      • Vegetables side dishes - Index
      • About the vegetables
      • Aloo baingan (Eggplant with potatoes)
      • Aloo Gobi masala (Spicy Potatoes and cauliflower curry)
      • Aloo Gobi masala (Cauliflower)
      • Aloo methi ki sabzi (Potatoes with fenugreek leaves)
      • Aloo Muttar sukhe (Sauteed boiled potatoes with green peas)
      • Aloo Muttar masala
      • Aloo palak ke sabzi (Potatoes with spinach)
      • Arbi - Masala arbi (Taro roots)
      • Bell Pepper stuffed with potatoes (Capsicum, Shimla Mirch)
      • Bell peppers with onion and potatoes (Capsicums)
      • Bharwa Baingan (Stuffed Eggplants)
      • Baingan Ka Bharta (Eggplant Bharta)
      • Bharwa Bhindi (Okra Stuffed with onion masala)
      • Bharwa banana peppers - Banana peppers stuffed with potatoes
      • Bhindi ke Sabzi (Okra)
      • Cabbage Curry (Bandh gobi, patta gobi)
      • Gajar methi ki sabzi (Carrots with Fenugreek leaves)
      • Capsicum masala (Bell peppers)
      • Gawar Ke Phalli (Cluster Beans)
      • Gawar Ke Phalli (Cluster Beans)- 2
      • Gobi aloo with onion & garlic (Cauliflower with onion, garlic & potatoes)
      • Gobi ki bhurji (Grated cauliflower with Green Peas)
      • Gobi aloo ki sabzi, Phool gobi (Cauliflower with potatoes)
      • Gobi Musallam (Cauliflower)
      • Green Beans (French beans)
      • Karela Bharwa with masala (stuffed Bitter Melon)
      • Lobia ki phalli (Green long beans)
      • Kaddu Ki Sabzi (Yellow pumpkin curry)
      • Lauki ki sabzi (Bottle gourd, Long Melon, Ghiya)
      • Jera Aloo (Potatoes with Cumin Seeds)
      • Jeera Aloo (Potatoes with Cumin Seeds)
      • Mooli ki bhurji (White daikon radish bhurji)
      • Methi Matar Malai (Fenugreek leaves, Green peas and Malai)
      • Muttar aloo with tomatoes and onions(Green peas with potatoes,tomatoes& onions)
      • Sangri, mooli ki phalli aloo ki sath (Dikon green beans with potatoes)
      • Sem aloo ki sabzi (Flat beans with potatoes)
      • Sem aloo ki sabzi (Green fava beans with potatoes)
      • Sukhe Aloo ke sabzi (Boiled sautéed potatoes with masala)
      • Masala Turaii (Zucchini with Masala)
      • Turai ki sabzi (zucchini)
  • Salad - Indian salads
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    • Kala Chana Salad - Indian Black Chickpea salad
    • Cabbage salad - (Indian spicy Cabbage salad)
    • Fruit salad - Indian spicy fruit salad
    • Chickpea Salad - Indian spicy chickpea salad
    • Corn Salad - Spicy Indian Corn Salad
    • Kachumber Salad - Indian Cucumber, Onion & Tomato salad
    • Mixed Bean Salad - Indian Mixed Bean Salad
    • Sprouted Green Moong Salad - (Indian recipe)
    • Quinoa Salad with Strawberries, Blueberries and Grapes
  • Popular Indian desserts - Index
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      • About Indian desserts
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      • Almond burfi (Badam Ki Burfi)
      • Besan ka Halwa (Gram flour Halwa)
      • Besan ka ladoo (Gram flour ladoo)
      • Boondi (Sweet Boondi)
      • Boondi Ladoo
      • Carrot Burfi (Gajar ki burfi)
      • Carrot Halwa (Gajar ka halwa)
      • Boondi or Boondi Ladoo
      • Cashew burfi (Kaju burfi, Kaju katli)
      • Coconut Burfi (Nariyal Ki Burfi)
      • Gujia
      • Gulab jamun
      • Kheer (Rice pudding)
      • Kala Jamun
      • Lauki Ka Halwa (Bottle gourd Halwa)
      • Makhanna Kheer (Puffed lotus seeds pudding)
      • Rasugalla
      • Rasgulla
      • Ras Mali
      • Sabudana Kheer (Tapioca Pudding)
      • Vermicelli Kheer (Seviyan kheer, Payasam Kheer)
      • Shrikhand (Sweet Yogurt)
      • Sooji Ka Halwa (Cream of wheat, Rava)
      • Pista burfi (Pistachio Burfi)
      • Phirni (Rice pudding)
      • Petha
      • Pumpkin burfi (kaddu ki burfi)
      • Til ke Burfi (Seasme Seed Burfi)
  • Snacks and chaats - Index
    • Snacks and Chaats >
      • Snacks & chaats - Index
      • About snacks and chaats
      • Aloo Bonda (potato balls dipped in Besan Batter)
      • Aloo Tikki (Potato patties)
      • Besan sev (Gram flour noodles)
      • Besan spicy french toast (Toast dipped in besan batter and cooked)
      • Besan cheela (Gram flour pancake)
      • Besan and sooji ka cheela (Gram flour & cream wheat pancake)
      • Bread rolls stuffed with spicy potatoes
      • Chola Aloo Tikki (Potatoes and chick peas patties)
      • Chole Chaat - Indian spicy Chickpea Chaat
      • Corn Chaat
      • Fruit Chaat - Indian spicy Fruit chaat
      • Kala chana chaat- Indian Black chickpea chaat
      • Dahi Vada ( urad dal pakoras with yogurt)
      • Dokhla Tips
      • Besan Ka Dokhla (Gram flour dokhla)
      • Moong Dal Dokhla
      • Sooji ka Dokhla (Cream of Wheat Dokhla)
      • Urad Dal and Rice Dokhla
      • Gol Gappa (Pani Puri)
      • Dosa
      • Dosa aloo masala for dosa stuffing (Potato Dosa masala)
      • Rava Dosa
      • Sambher
      • Idli
      • Rava Idli (Sooji or Cream of wheat idli)
      • Rava Masala idli (Masala idli)
      • Hariyalli tikki or Hara bhara kebab
      • Mathri (Crispy salty crackers)
      • Medu Vada
      • Vegetable Cutlets (Mixed vegetable cutlets)
      • Moong Dal Cheela (Moong dal pancake)
      • Namkeen paras (Cispy salted crackers)
      • Aloo pakoras (Potato fritters)
      • Cauliflower pakora (Gobi ka pakora)
      • Pakora with Green Moong Dal and potatoes (Fritter)
      • Pyaz ka pakoras (Onion pakoras fritter)
      • Mixed vegetable pakora - Fritters (potatoes, spinach & onion mixed)
      • Potatoes and vegetables mix pakoras (Fritter)
      • Palak pakora (Spinach pakoras)
      • Paneer pakoras (Fritter)
      • Chicken pakoras (Fritters)
      • Papari / papadi Chaat
      • Bharwa mirchi ka pakora (Stuffed green chilie fritters)
      • Poha with green peas
      • Potato Cutlet
      • Potato paneer tots
      • Roasted cauliflower
      • Tandoori Gobi (Tandoori Cauliflower)
      • Sabudana, Aloo Vada (Tapioca cutlet with potato)
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      • Shakkar paras (Sweet crackers)
      • Sprouted Green moong chat
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  • Raita (Yogurt)
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    • Kheera ka raita (Yogurt with cucumber)
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    • Palak ka raita (Yogurt with spinach)
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   Rava masala Idli

                               Rava masala Idli      
                        (Cream of wheat and sooji Idli)

Rava Masala idli is spicy and delicious. It is an easy way to make regular plain idlies interesting, they are not only for breakfast but they are absolutely wonderful for snack. Rava masala idli batter is made by mixing Rava (sooji, cream of wheat) with yogurt and red chili, curry leaves, cashews, urad and chana dal and mustard seeds and asafetida tadka is added to the batter to make the idlis spicy and flavorful, then this batter is steamed in Idli making molds. Rava idlis are soft fluffy and very tempting to look at they taste great with sambhar and coconut chutney. Masala rava idli is easy and quick to prepare then traditional rice and lentils idlis, because the idli batter does not require overnight fermentation.

Ingredients:
 
2    Cups of rava (Sooji, cream of wheat)
1    Cup of plain yogurt (savor yogurt 
      preferred)
3    Tablespoons vegetable oil
1     Cup of water or as required
      (depending on the consistency of 
      yogurt) 
1    Teaspoon chana dal
1    Teaspoon urad dal
2    Tablespoon broken cashew nuts or
       cashew halfs
4    Curry leaves –break them into small 
      pieces 
2    Whole dry red chili – break them into 
       small pieces
1    Teaspoon mustard seeds
1    Pinch of asafetida (Hing)
1    Teaspoon salt or to your taste
2    Teaspoons ENO salt

Makes about 32 Idlies

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 Rava   Sooji (Cream of wheat)
                Rava
  Sooji (Cream of wheat)
 Chana dal, Urad dal, Curry leaves, red chilies and cashews
Chana dal, Urad dal, Curry leaves, red chilies and  
               cashews
Utensils for Steaming Idlis:

 1.  Idly stand - Stand has 4 plates stacked over each other.

 2.  A pot with a lid that is large enough to hold idly stand, or idly steamer. (Idli
      cooker comes with idly stand)     
 Large pot
Large pot
Idly stand
Idly stand
Idly cooker
Idly cooker
Direction:
 1. Soak Chana Dal and Urad Dal in water.

2.   Heat a nonstick frying pan and dry roast the rava for 4 to 5 minutes, stirring
      constantly. Do not brown the rava. 

3. Add 2 tablespoons of oil and mix it well with rava.
Dry roast rava (cream of wheat)
Dry roast rava (cream of wheat)
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Add oil and mix it well
4. Transfer the rava into a bowl and add salt and mix.

5. In a cup add yogurt and  beat it with the spoon until it become smooth.

6. Pour the yogurt over the rava and mix it well. 
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Add yogurt in Rava
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Mix yogurt in Rava
7. Add water little at a time and mix it with Rava batter. The mixture should have
   a thick consistency.

8. Cover the bowl and keep it in a warm place to ferment for 2 to 3 hour or longer.
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Add water in the batter and mix
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Cover the bowel & place it in warm place
9.  Once batter is fermented and you are ready to make idli's prepare seasoning.

10.  Heat 1 tablespoon of oil in a frying pan on medium heat, add cashews and fry them until they are golden brown. keep them aside.
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Shallow fry cashew nuts
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Cashew’s are fried
11. In the same pan add mustard seeds and asafetida and fry them for 1 to 2
      minutes or until mustard seed start splattering.  

11. Add pieces of curry leaves and red chilies and sauté until they become light
      brown.  
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Fry mustard seeds & asafetida
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Sautee red chilies and curry leaves
12. Add soaked Urad dal Chana Dal and sauté them for 2 to 3 minutes. Turn the
     stove off.
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Add soaked dal's and sauté
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Consistency of the batter
13.  Transfer fried seasoning into fermented batter and mix. At this point if
       batter becomes thick as sooji absorbs the water, you can add a little water,
       the consistency of the batter should be thick.

14.  Now prepare the steamer for steaming the idlis.  

15.  In a large pot or idly cooker add about 1” of water and bring it to boil. 
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Add seasoning in the batter & mix
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In a pot boil the water
 16.  Grease the idly  trays with a drop of oil and rub it around.

17. Put fried cashew nuts in the center of each Idli mold.
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Grease the Idli trays
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Put fried cashew in each idli mold
 18.  When ready to pour the batter in the idly trays add ENO fruit salt and  sprinkle 2 teaspoon of water over the fruit salt, the bubble will start forming, with the spoon mix gently, the batter will start rising. (Add ENO salt in the amount of batter you are going to use at a time) 
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Add ENO fruit salt in the batter
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ENO fruit salt start foaming
 19.  With a spoon drop some batter on the idly maker trays, do not fill it up to the top leave some room for them to expand.
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Sprinkle water over ENO fruit salt
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With the spoon drop batter in the Idli molds
20.  Stack the idli trays in the stand.

21.  When stacking the idly maker trays alter the holes of idly stand, the tray wholes should not be right on the top of another.

22.  Immediately place the idly maker stand in the pot or idly cooker, with boiling water, close the lid of the cooker or cover the pot.
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Fill the Idli trays & stack them
 Fill the trays with the batter and place them in the idli cooker
Place the idli stand in the steamer
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Cover the pot
Idlis are cooked and expanded
Idlis are cooked and expanded
23. In about 7 to 8 minutes cooker will start steaming, then let the idli's cook for 7 to 8 minutes, turn the heat off. If steaming idlis in the pot then after steam start coming let them cook  for 10 to 12 minutes.

24. Open the idli cooker and take a tooth pick and insert in an idli to see if they are cooked, if the tooth pick come out clean it means idli is cooked. Take the idli stand out of the idli cooker or the pot.

25.  Let  the idli's cool down, then take a butter knife or a plastic knife and insert  in the edges of idli and loose them up, then insert the knife under  the idli and take it out from the stand. Repeat until you take all the idly out.

26.   Clean the idly maker and grease it, before you make other batch of idli.
 
27.  Serve the idly's with sambhar and coconut chutney.
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With the tooth pick check the Idli’s
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Insert the knife to loose the Idil’s
ENO Fruit salt ENO Fruit salt

Tips:


1. The amount of water for the batter is depends on the yogurt. If the yogurt is
     thick it requires more water if yogurt is watery then it require less water. 

2. The idli batter has to be fermented otherwise you won’t get good Idly's.

3. If you do not have savor yogurt then just use regular yogurt but
    you would not have savor taste.

4.  ENO fruit salt could be purchased from any Indian grocery
      store.
 

5.    If you want to prepare Idlie's in batches then prepare batter
       without adding 
ENO salt and divide it into two equal portions.
       Add ENO salt in one portion
 and mix and pour immediately
       into greased idli mold trays and steam. When
first batch is 
       steamed  add ENO salt in the other portion and follow the
       same 
process.



Please take the time to let me know what you think about my recipe. Your comments would be helpful to me to improve the recipe.

Thank you     

Geeta Seth


Other recipes:

 Idli                                                                                 Coconut chutney

Sooji ka dokhla 
(Cream of what or sooji dokhla)                                 Rava idli

Dosa                                                                         Upma (cream of wheat with    
                                                                                                      Green peas)  

                  
 Sambhar                                                Uthappam with sooji (cream of wheat)

Moong dal dokhla                                  Poha with green peas

    Please take the time to let me know what you think about my recipe. Your comments would be helpful to me to improve the recipe.. Thank you.. Geeta Seth
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